Just for a reminder, this chapter contains some brief adult language . And this is a rated "M" chapter.
Chapter 18:
"Savage, what's the states?" Dagur asked as he and Savage walked toward the dock.
After a discussion with Irizan, Dagur decided to launch a siege, right after the first battle, and their target was the Island of Berk itself. Irizan believed that sea battles weren't the right strategy toward a group of overly stubborn Vikings with fire-breathing war machines. This time, Dagur decided to dispatch all five divisions of Las Cosmos Armada, so that they could outnumber the Berkians even more than the previous battle.
Irizan was a careful commander. He supported the idea of decrease the number of casualties as low as possible, which wasn't Dagur's style. But Dagur decided to trust his best commander this time. If they lost this battle, Dagur was pretty sure that the Berserkers would win the war anyway.
"We resupplied Cosmos 2 with ten brand new battleships. Right now Cosmos 1 and 2 are ready for the battle. We filled their ships with arrows for the ballistae, boulders for the catapults, spears, and shields for the soldiers, and we add extra armor plates on decks, ports, and starboards," Savage read the information on a paper, "and archers are armed with Dragon Root arrows. Right now Cosmos 3,4, and 5 are still preparing. They received their ammo, but we are still waiting for them to reinforce their ships' armors."
"So what would happen to the Armada after we finished preparing?"
"According to our plan, we will have 120 battleships armed with ballistae, catapults, crossbows and each ship will have twenty armed soldiers."
"Good, how about our Skrills?"
"Right now we have five Skrills, and we controlled them all."
"Hopefully after this battle, we won't face the Berkians anymore," Dagur signed, "Berkians killed our tribesmen and our former Chief years ago. Right now it's the time for them to learn their lesson. Those barbarians will face a calamity that will wipe them out from the world."
"According to our deep-cover, Hiccup became the Chief after the death of Stoick. Right now he is trying to fortify the island. In her opinion, his decrepit defense won't even last long. But she recognized that Hiccup and the dragon Riders are planning something that might be a latent threat to our ships. She said that they might be able to concentrate the dragons' fire," Savage reported.
"That's not a big deal. We use Skrills as air support, and advance some ships to the shore and land some elite soldiers while the ships are providing covering fire," Dagur waved his hand, "How about her safety?"
"She said that right now the Berkians still view her as one of them. So I guess her identity is still hidden."
"We need her at the most important moment. Even though I still don't know when is that moment. I'll talk with Irizan about that," Dagur patted on Savage's back as a sign of encouragement, "Keep on the good work, we leave for Berk as soon as the Armada is ready."
"Gods help us during the war," Dagur added.
Footsteps came behind Dagur. Then Heather appeared beside him, with her axe in her right hand.
"How is your division?" Dagur asked.
Heather was the division commander for Cosmos 3, which served as the auxiliary team during the previous battle. Even though Cosmos 2 was the most abounded and had the most ships, but under Heather's strict and severe training, Cosmos 3 could be the most elite division.
"What do you expect? Some assholes were busy mentally laying me so I don't think they would finish their work on time."
"What… who has the guts to do that? I'm going to remove his, or her, head because he or she was trying to lay with my sister in their imaginations," Dagur shouted.
"What if the person was Irizan?" Heather teased him.
"Well, if Irizan did that, I guess I'll let it slide. His importance is… well… beyond my sister's virginity," Dagur quickly calmed down when he heard the name Irizan. He gave a lot of respect to Irizan. Not only because Irizan was his best division commander, but he was the man whom his father, Oswald, assigned to be Dagur's right-hand man.
"If you still have your virginity anyway," Dagur shrugged, "I need a real working brain during the war."
After the last Viking left the Great Hall after lunch, the Hall turned empty. The door was open, and the tapestries with ancient Viking symbols in the Hall gently drifted when wind whistled in. Right now most of the Berkians were constructing coastal defenses along the harbor, cliffs, and beach. Some Vikings were on patrol, looking for possible insults from the Berserkers. The trusty Dragon Riders accompanied by the Nadder team were romping around in the air, as usual, while practicing their fighting techniques. But for the Chief and the highly possible future Chieftess, they were not doing what they were supposed to be doing.
In one of the most secluded place on the Island of Berk, the cove, Stormfly and Toothless constantly careening into each other for fun at the place which Hiccup made a connection with Toothless years ago. Their riders, Astrid and Hiccup enjoyed their time in each other's arms at a corner of the cove. The stream in the cove still sparkled under the sunlight and a peaceful atmosphere covered this paradisical area.
Even though Hiccup could serve his chieftain duties, but he still didn't fully recover from the loss of his father, and Astrid was in the cove with Hiccup to reassure him.
"Are you trying to become my consort or something?" Hiccup asked while Astrid ran her fingers through Hiccup's messy hair.
"Well, you are depressed and just sad, right? Don't lie to me," Astrid said as she ran her fingers down toward Hiccup's face and jaw.
"If you say so," Hiccup responded in a quiet voice, "I know I should step up, but I just felt… lonely."
"Lonely? You have a Night Fury and a beautiful girl by your side."
"But not an over-sized Viking which kept telling me about how to become a chief."
"Listen, Hiccup, I've been through this when I lost my Uncle Finn, but that didn't stop me from becoming the strongest girl on Berk. In fact, that helped me to become the strongest girl on Berk."
"That makes more sense."
"We need you. Berk needs you. We can't fight the Berserkers without a leader, and I would like to have the original Hiccup back."
"Right, I guess I can make it work."
"Then I guess everything will be back on track soon."
"So…"
"So what?"
"What do we do now?"
"Because I believe I had said enough, so we can enjoy our time together when we still have the time to enjoy each other," Astrid said with a sly smile on her face as she pinned Hiccup's arms to the ground.
"Look at you two! How was the refreshment?" Snotlout pointed at Hiccup and Astrid as they met the Dragon Riders and the Nadder team on the cliffs.
Unlike Hiccup and Astrid's messy clothes and tangled hair, the members of the Riders and the Nadder team were obviously tired due to the fortification of the Island of Berk. Right now they were surprised to find out that when they were hard-working, their two leaders were… well… doing something that was only permitted to take place in a bedroom.
"What do you mean by 'refreshment'?" Hiccup asked as he searched through the bad on Toothless's saddle.
"The physical appearance of you two told us that you just fucked each other," added Ruffnut straightforwardly. She presented her opinion just like reading from a book, without any rhythms or emotions.
The girls in the Nadder team started "ooh-ing" and "ahh-ing" and teasing Hiccup and Astrid with some words, phrases, and inside jokes which Hiccup was sure that the girls learned from the twins.
"Fine, fine," Hiccup raised his hand and tried to calm them down, "we might be laying each other, but why are you guys so excited?"
"We were saying, chief, you two were having fun all over each other while the rest of the village were working to the point of straining ourselves too much?" surprisingly, Fishlegs backed Snotlout up, "You might need to think about the equality."
"Is there a problem Fishlegs?" Astrid said while she walked around Fishlegs and gave him her death glare.
"No, not at all," under Astrid's extreme pressure, Fishlegs finally returned to the shy boy that they all knew.
"All right, enough talking, get back to work," Hiccup finally realized that he needed to put an end to the talking.
"I better see our one-legged chief start working on our coastal defense with his girlfriend as well," Snotlout teased, "or shall I say fiancé?"
"Watch your mouth, Snot-face," Astrid said as she and Hiccup walked away from a group of annoying Vikings with their hands laced together.
"I was just telling the truth!" Snotlout yelled in disagreement.
"Nevermind that spitfire," Tuffnut put his right hand on Snotlout's shoulder, "I believe Hiccup will suffer after he marries Astrid. We just say our wishes and let Loki do the rest."
"How so?" Xerxianna asked with curious, "I believe they'll live 'happily ever after'."
"No, no," Ruffnut shook her head, "Tuffnut was saying that Hiccup will suffer in the bedroom after he marries Astrid."
Another round of "ohh" and "ahh" followed.
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